Whitebrow

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[–] Whitebrow 3 points 4 days ago

Let me start by saying that I agree that it’s a company that’s out there to make profit by any means and that they’ve been a huge pile of shite.

But this isn’t virtue signalling.

Virtue signalling by definition means preaching something you don’t practice.

They didn’t only say they’re open sourcing it, they actually did.

They might be doing it to try and “buy” some goodwill from the general populous, that’s possible, but they at least did something tangible to that end.

Would’ve been cool if they released the assets too in addition to the code but I recon there might be reasons why that was not possible.

[–] Whitebrow 12 points 4 days ago

Correct, yelling and chanting does nothing, they slapped him to a functional enough state that he managed to regain control of his faculties

[–] Whitebrow 21 points 4 days ago

The video is showing something called a freediving blackout, it’s a condition that gets triggered in divers such as the one shown, plus other factors such as hyperventilating prior to the dive.

What happens in this case is the person loses consciousness because they don’t feel the need to breathe as they have purged a lot of the CO2 the body has prior, giving them “room” to not feel the urge to breathe.

Again, as specified previously, assuming the person doesn’t die of anything immediate in the water, the body simply stops breathing.

The problem is when it starts again.

Your body, once “jolted awake” by the involuntary nervous system, will try to breathe, and it doesn’t know or care that you might still be underwater since you stopped swimming and didn’t get out of the water in time or weren’t rescued or washed ashore on some deserted island.

If you’re out of the water at this point, you’re fine, usually. If you’re still underwater, you breathe in (involuntarily) a bunch of the water (or a bunch of “nothing” if you got your holes plugged) and that’s what kills you.

Kind of ironic that in an attempt to preserve your life, your own involuntary bodily function is what ends up being the final nail.

[–] Whitebrow 50 points 4 days ago (6 children)

No. You can sorta do it until you pass out and then your involuntary nervous system takes over and your body breathes on its own because you’re not conscious anymore.

[–] Whitebrow 2 points 1 week ago

Combination of bad headshot, eyes wide open to the point that you can see the sclera on both the top and bottom and him being cross eyed.

Typically he still looks clueless but not as shocked.

[–] Whitebrow 1 points 1 week ago

Every update would be dedicated to the GoG platform and not others, might be addressing issues with it faster too since the sole focus is just that one store and the app functionality

[–] Whitebrow 2 points 1 week ago

Did you mean Balatro for the next 6 hours?

[–] Whitebrow 5 points 2 weeks ago

Have no need for the key but thank you for doing this!

[–] Whitebrow 20 points 2 weeks ago

Watched it not long ago. Didn’t realize the people rating it have no appreciation for decent movies.

It wasn’t phenomenal by any means but it was quite entertaining for the duration of it.

[–] Whitebrow 1 points 2 weeks ago

Been experiencing something similar, over the course of 2-3 years it appeared and flares up to the point of needing to see a doctor several times.

2 different fingers on opposite sides. Forearm to wrist on one arm. Elbow on the opposite side of the wrist one. Knee on the same side as the elbow. And Achilles tendinitis to complete the package.

No apparent reason as to why or why it’s so spread out.

[–] Whitebrow 2 points 2 weeks ago

That’s called boofing and is strongly advised against.

[–] Whitebrow 24 points 2 weeks ago

Don’t know who needs to hear it, but here’s some advice that my philosophy professor left me with a long time ago:

Sometimes you can only save one person, and it’s okay for that person to be you.

 
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